Fake cat fur - help!

Hi everyone, I'm working on a short film at the moment where a female character needs to slowly transform into a cat. This requires applying fake hair to her arms, legs and face as well as making her hands and feet resemble cat's paws. Just wondering if anyone knows any good tricks for applying fake hair (using spirit gum, maybe?) or has any suggestions on how I can make this look as real as possible. Thank you! - Claire

The traditional way to create and build up hair was using a muslin or similar base and creating the various pieces ie beard moustache etc in your case presumably various shaped sections to attach to the skin and glue the hair to the cloth with spirit gum and once the whole thing is dry attach it to the skin using spirit gum. It's been years since I did makeup that seriously though so I am sure the world has moved on. hope that helped a bit. Is that all there is? Well if that's all there is my friend, then let's keep dancing. www.tonymoore.id.au

I just realised how incoherent that post was. You take a small piece of cloth cut to the shape of the facial or other area you want, really light muslin is OK although a friend of mine used to swear by those blue cloths you can buy for washing up, you apply the hair gently ensuring it is all laying in the same direction and glue the base lightly to the cloth. After that is finished you seal the back, my mate used to use latex. The piece can then be applied to the skin using spirit glue. Sweating of course can bring it off the face but I don't reccomned super glue. I think that's a bit more rational. Is that all there is? Well if that's all there is my friend, then let's keep dancing. www.tonymoore.id.au

You could always try and find someone who worked on the makeup and hair team for CATS. Is that all there is? Well if that's all there is my friend, then let's keep dancing. www.tonymoore.id.au